Its funny how you convince yourself by watching others do things on TV that you can do it too. Thats the way Ive been the past few years until my wife told me I was either going to do something with the yard or she would hire someone to do it. I decided I better get cracking!

My wifes sister new someone that was in the landscaping business and suggested we contact him. So we scraped enough money together to hire him for a consultation, which was money well, spent. Since he knew up front that we would do most of the work he designed the yard with that in mind.

After taking the time to listening to us he came back with a very simple plan where we were able to accomplish almost 90% of the work ourselves without a hitch. Laying the patio blocks and getting them even and right was the most difficult thing we had to do and thankfully, we had some much needed help that day.

I had watched landscape shows for a couple of years and bought the landscape software determined to get my yard in shape. Yet it wasnt until I got married two years ago that I really got motivated. My wife and I decided we would rather spend the extra money we had on creating a nice space in the yard than going out to eat and movies.

We cut back considerably and saved enough money to hire a landscape design firm that helped us get some good ideas. They knew we only wanted their help with ideas and that we wanted something we could feasibly do together with family and friends. My brother-in-law suggested this and I cant tell you how glad we were once we did the consult!

After listening to what we wanted and how we would like to function in our yard, together we came up with a great layout and plan that we felt we could pull off. This hardest part was the large patio out back and we did hire then to help for a day to get the rock laid and finished correctly. Other than that, we pretty much did the entire yard.

Its funny how you convince yourself by watching others do things on TV that you can do it too. Thats the way Ive been the past few years until my wife told me I was either going to do something with the yard or she would hire someone to do it. I decided I better get cracking!

We cut back considerably and saved enough money to hire a landscape design firm that helped us get some good ideas. They knew we only wanted their help with ideas and that we wanted something we could feasibly do together with family and friends. My brother-in-law suggested this and I cant tell you how glad we were once we did the consult!

After listening to what we wanted and how we would like to function in our yard, together we came up with a great layout and plan that we felt we could pull off. This hardest part was the large patio out back and we did hire then to help for a day to get the rock laid and finished correctly. Other than that, we pretty much did the entire yard.